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Problem

#2346: SMG accepts parallel_tool_calls on Chat Completions, normalizes it on the Responses API, and echoes it in streaming responses — but never enforces it. A client sending parallel_tool_calls: false can still receive multiple tool calls: the flag is absent from the gRPC protos and does not influence gateway-side constraint generation.

Ecosystem behavior (verified line-by-line against current vLLM/SGLang main, citations in the issue): vLLM filters post-hoc at the serving layer; SGLang constrains at generation time with maxItems: 1. SMG's gateway-builds-the-constraint architecture maps onto SGLang's approach.

Refs: #2346

Solution

Constraint layer (this PR):

  • generate_tool_constraint takes parallel_tool_calls: bool. When false:
    • json_schema path (required tool_choice): maxItems: 1 on the tool-call array schema — mirrors SGLang's get_json_schema_constraint
    • structural_tag path: sets stop_after_first: true on the triggered_tags format object — the xgrammar dialect knob the kimi_k3 builder already references; generic post-build, so all four structural-tag parsers (mistral, kimik2, kimi_k3, inkling) get it without signature changes
    • tool_choice for a specific function is unchanged (already exactly one call)
  • Plumbing: chat preparation passes request.parallel_tool_calls.unwrap_or(true); messages preparation now also honors Anthropic's equivalent tool_choice.disable_parallel_tool_use (previously dropped by convert_message_tool_choice)

Follow-up (separate PR, per the issue): vLLM-style response filtering (truncate to first call non-streaming, drop index > 0 deltas streaming) as defense-in-depth for auto/passthrough paths where no constraint exists today.

Changes

  • crates/tool_parser/src/factory.rs — flag on generate_tool_constraint + build_required_array_schema, structural-tag stop_after_first, 6 new tests
  • model_gateway/.../stages/chat/preparation.rs — pass the request field
  • model_gateway/.../stages/messages/preparation.rs — map disable_parallel_tool_use → the same flag

Test Plan

New tests in crates/tool_parser/src/factory.rs:

  • json_schema_constraint_gets_max_items_when_parallel_disabled / ..._omits_max_items_when_parallel_enabled — SGLang parity
  • structural_tag_sets_stop_after_first_when_parallel_disabled / ..._omits_..._enabled — mistral structural tag
  • function_choice_constraint_is_unchanged_by_parallel_flag — specific-function choice stays a bare params schema
  • auto_choice_still_produces_no_constraint_when_parallel_disabled — auto path unchanged

TDD: tests failed pre-implementation (method takes 3 arguments but 4 supplied).

Gate output (macOS, rustc 1.97.1 stable):

  • cargo test -p tool-parser — all suites pass (106 lib incl. 6 new, plus all integration suites)
  • cargo test -p smg --lib — 1881 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo +nightly fmt --all — silent success
  • cargo clippy -p tool-parser -p smg --all-targets -- -D warnings — zero warnings
Checklist
  • cargo +nightly fmt passes
  • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passes
  • (Optional) Documentation updated — N/A
  • (Optional) Please join us on Slack #sig-smg to discuss, review, and merge PRs

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The OpenAI field was accepted and echoed but never enforced. When
false, generate_tool_constraint now constrains to a single tool call:
maxItems: 1 on the required-array JSON schema (mirrors SGLang's
get_json_schema_constraint) and stop_after_first on structural tags
(triggered_tags dialect). tool_choice for a specific function is
unchanged (already single-call).

Threaded from the chat preparation stage (request.parallel_tool_calls)
and the messages preparation stage, which now also honors Anthropic's
tool_choice.disable_parallel_tool_use equivalent.

Refs: smg-project#2346
Signed-off-by: ishan <ishanvgf@gmail.com>
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  • New Features

    • Parallel tool-call settings are now honored across the Chat and Messages APIs. When parallel calls are disabled, required tool-use constraints limit requests to one tool call.
    • Messages API media can be processed by workers when applicable.
    • Added support for reasoning prefixes around structural tool-call formats and for additional DeepSeek and GLM model variants.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved consistency between Anthropic tool-use settings and tool-call behavior.

Walkthrough

The parser applies single-call constraints when parallel tool calls are disabled. Chat and Messages preparation stages pass this setting. Messages preparation also forwards media references when worker-side processing is selected.

Changes

Parallel tool constraint handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Constraint generation and validation
crates/tool_parser/src/factory.rs
generate_tool_constraint now adds stop_after_first to structural tags and maxItems: 1 to generic required-tool schemas when parallel calls are disabled. Tests cover enabled and disabled settings, unchanged specific-function constraints, auto choice, and malformed structural tags.
Gateway setting propagation
model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/stages/chat/preparation.rs, model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/stages/messages/preparation.rs
Chat preparation passes the request setting, defaulting to true. Messages preparation derives the setting from Anthropic ToolChoice and passes it to constraint generation.

Worker-side media forwarding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Multimodal processing selection and forwarding
model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/stages/messages/preparation.rs
Messages preparation resolves worker versus local multimodal processing. It stores media references in ctx.state.multimodal_refs when worker processing is selected and retains local processing otherwise.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 30223

Disabling parallel tool calls now limits generated tool constraints as intended. However, the Go bindings may fail to compile because their callers were not updated for the new parameter. Forced tool calls for reasoning-capable parsers can also cut off the model's reasoning. Both problems should be fixed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 30223

Single-call limits improve, but required tool calls can be lost on reasoning-enabled requests, and some callers now force single calls regardless of client settings. Compatibility with all supported execution environments remains unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Replacing the reasoning input removes the grammar transition that closes prefilled reasoning before a forced tool call. For reasoning-prefilled GLM47 and HyV4 requests, calls can consequently remain inside reasoning and disappear before tool parsing. This regresses the separation control even when parallel calls remain enabled.
  • Low · architecture · observed: Unchanged Go-binding callers pass false for the former reasoning argument. With its new meaning, required-tool JSON constraints now always receive maxItems: 1, including requests that permit parallel calls. The shared interface remains type-compatible while silently changing the effective request policy.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated reach is request-level constraint generation and returned tool-call interpretation across gateway and Go-binding callers. The reasoning regression is scoped to configured reasoning-prefix parsers with prefilled reasoning, rather than establishing cross-tenant access or privilege escalation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — A structural-tag builder without an object-valued format now fails explicitly when parallel calls are disabled. Gateway preparation converts that error into a bad-request response instead of silently forwarding the malformed constraint.
  • inferred — Checking that format is an object does not establish per-call cardinality. DeepSeek v4.1 places repeatable invokes inside a sequence, and HyV4 places a plus expression inside one triggered tool_calls block. Whether the new outer stop_after_first field limits those inner calls is unresolved. This is an incomplete new enforcement guarantee, not evidence that previously enforced single-call controls were weakened.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Constraint precedence is backend-specific: the inspected SGLang client drops tool constraints when another decoding constraint is present, while the vLLM client gives tool constraints priority. Request-level single-call enforcement therefore cannot be assessed from generation alone.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Keep reasoning placement and parallel-call policy as independent settings, and enforce cardinality at each parser's actual call repetition node. Validate the resulting grammar against supported reader versions before treating the request flag as a uniform enforcement guarantee.
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774-779: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

🟡 Nit Assert the enabled-path payload.

Line 778 only verifies that a constraint exists. It does not verify that the malformed tag remains unchanged when parallel calls are enabled. Deserialize ok with structural_tag_of and assert equality with json!({"unexpected": true}).

Proposed test update
         let ok = registry
             .generate_tool_constraint(Some("bad_tag"), &sample_tools(), &required(), true)
             .unwrap();
-        assert!(ok.is_some());
+        assert_eq!(structural_tag_of(ok), json!({"unexpected": true}));

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🟠 Major · 🎯 Functional Correctness · factory.rs:250

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🔴 Important Preserve reasoning-prefix dispatch separately from the parallel-call flag.

Both gateway paths compute whether the prefill ends inside a reasoning block, but generate_tool_constraint does not receive or use that value. For GLM 4.7, the generated structural constraint therefore omits the registered reasoning prefix before the tool-call format. Add a separate reasoning argument or option, and keep parallel_tool_calls independently propagated. Add a regression test for the resulting sequence format.

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🟠 Major · Keep reasoning-prefix wrapping separate from parallel-call control. · factory.rs:135-162

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep reasoning-prefix wrapping separate from parallel-call control.

Chat and Messages preparation still calculate whether the prompt ends inside reasoning, but pass only parallel_tool_calls to generate_tool_constraint. That function no longer wraps the structural tag. Yet constraint_covers_reasoning still returns true for registered prefixes, so the request builders can set require_reasoning to false for an unwrapped tag. A forced tool constraint can then preempt the model’s remaining reasoning.

Keep both parameters, wrap the tag when reasoning starts in the prefill, and pass that state from both preparation stages.

🐛 Suggested fix
     pub fn generate_tool_constraint(
         &self,
         configured_parser: Option<&str>,
         tools: &[Tool],
         tool_choice: &ToolChoice,
         parallel_tool_calls: bool,
+        reasoning: bool,
     ) -> Result<Option<ToolConstraint>, String> {
...
                     if !parallel_tool_calls {
...
                     }
+                    if let (true, Some(prefix)) = (reasoning, entry.reasoning_prefix) {
+                        tag = wrap_in_reasoning_prefix(tag, prefix())?;
+                    }
                     let json_str = serde_json::to_string(&tag)

Pass reasoning after parallel_tool_calls at the chat and Messages call sites.

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Review comment at @crates/tool_parser/src/factory.rs around lines 135 - 162:
Update generate_tool_constraint to accept the reasoning state and wrap its
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